A mobile phone lies on a flat, smooth, frictionless surface and is vibrated by the vibrating alert. The mobile phone rotates about its own axis so that the rotation angle performs a harmonic oscillation: What is the magnitude of the vibration amplitude?
Details and Assumptions: In a vibrating mobile phone move small motors, which put an imbalance with the mass in rapid rotation. The imbalance has the shape of a half-cylinder with radius , which rotates about the full-cylinder axis. Since the center of gravity of the half-cylinder is not in the axis of rotation, a centrifugal force acts on the engine. One motor is attached to the points and at a distance of from the center of gravity of the mobile phone. We assume that the motors both rotate counterclockwise and have an angular velocity of . The motors are opposite to each other aligned, so that a pure torque acts on the mobile phone. Assume that the mobile phone has the shape of a rectangle with width and length and a mass of
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We assume, that at time t = 0 the unbalance of a vibration motor is aligned along the x-axis. On a mass element Δ m of the unbalance at the position r a centrifugal force acts due to the rotation around the origin Δ F cf = Δ m ω 2 r = Δ m ω 2 ( r cos φ r sin φ ) The total force on the total imbalance results from integration over the semicircular surface: F cf = ∫ d F cf = ∫ ω 2 r d m = 2 1 π a 2 m ∫ ω 2 r d A = 2 1 π a 2 m ∫ 0 a [ ∫ − π / 2 π / 2 ω 2 r ( cos φ sin φ ) ⋅ r d φ ] d r = 2 1 π a 2 m ω 2 ∫ − π / 2 π / 2 ( cos φ sin φ ) d φ ⋅ ∫ 0 a r 2 d r = 2 1 π a 2 m ω 2 ( 2 0 ) ⋅ 3 1 a 3 = 3 π 4 m ω 2 a e x As a function of time, there is a centrifugal force F cf ( t ) = 3 π 4 m ω 2 a ( cos ω t sin ω t ) The forces F cf and − F cf at the points A and B exert a torque T on the mobile phone: T = b e y × F cf + ( − b e y ) × ( − F cf ) = − 3 π 8 m ω 2 a b cos ( ω t ) ⋅ e z The rotational movement of the mobile phone obeys the equation I θ ¨ e z = T with the moment of inertia I , which is calculated by integration over the rectangular area of the mobile phone I = ∫ r 2 d M = w l M ∫ − l / 2 l / 2 ∫ − w / 2 w / 2 ( x 2 + y 2 ) d x d y = w l M ( ∫ − w / 2 w / 2 x 2 d x ⋅ ∫ − l / 2 l / 2 d y + ∫ − w / 2 w / 2 d x ⋅ ∫ − l / 2 l / 2 y 2 d y ) = w l M ( 3 2 ( 2 w ) 3 ⋅ l + w ⋅ 3 2 ( 2 l ) 3 ) = 1 2 M ( w 2 + l 2 ) The equation of motion for the rotation angle yields: ⇒ ⇒ d t 2 d 2 θ ( t ) θ ( t ) A = I T ( t ) = − π 3 2 M m w 2 + l 2 a b ω 2 cos ( ω t ) = π 3 2 M m w 2 + l 2 a b cos ( ω t ) = π 3 2 M m w 2 + l 2 a b ≈ 6 ⋅ 1 0 − 5